Worst Places to Live + derelict buildings + other fascinating urban architecture + brutalism

[Rachey]

Come see the BIGGEST tourist attraction in Sheffield, the PARK HILL FLATS

We don't have anything like this on the isle of wight, or any tower blocks. I find them fascinating.

I always ask Mandy to drive me through Leigh Park near Southampton/Portsmouth but she always refuses

 

[AGinAg (37)]

ART

@Zu-Klara

 

[Shirley]

It was so much more appealing in its HEYDAY

 

[Zu]

Still looked like an ABATTOIR even then

 

[Zu]

I do love the complete absence of niceties such as windows. I’m sure the only pubs on ground level with no windows that I’ve ever been to have been fuck dens

 

[Zu]

Meanwhile, in Edinburgh...

 

[Zu]

“Pint of mild, packet of Big D’s, half a pound of your finest smack and a good beating in the gents with a baseball bat please love”

 

[Zu]

This simultaneously makes me sad and gives me the horn, especially the Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co. Ltd. signage

https://www.derelictlondon.com/south--south-east-london-pubs.html

Particularly liking the sound of the SLOPING FLOOR

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Omg Derelict London. That's me lost for the next 18 hours. Bye huns.

 

[Soldi]

This simultaneously makes me sad and gives me the horn, especially the Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co. Ltd. signage

https://www.derelictlondon.com/south--south-east-london-pubs.html

Particularly liking the sound of the SLOPING FLOOR

Ooo you can do a GUIDED DERELICT WALKING TOUR We have these in Sheffield too although there just called ‘Sheffield Walking Tours’

 

[RS]

Come see the BIGGEST tourist attraction in Sheffield, the PARK HILL FLATS

This is actually really beautiful architecture.

 

[Kate]

Omg Derelict London. That's me lost for the next 18 hours. Bye huns.

There's a Derelict Essex link on there too

Can't see how to search by area of London though

 

[AGinAg (37)]

There's a Derelict Essex link on there too

Can't see how to search by area of London though

Nothing local mind. Except Jaywick. Obviously.

 

[Kate]

Millennium Mills Silvertown has given me the HORN!

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Millennium Mills Silvertown has given me the HORN!

Oh I love the old industrial sites of London, especially the old docks. That's another rabbit hole.

 

[Soldi]

The Moor, Sheffield circa. 1984

 

[AGinAg (37)]

The Moor, Sheffield circa. 1984

REFERENCE!

 

[Soldi]

REFERENCE!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)

 

[AGinAg (37)]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)

Oh I know. I was just pleased with nicheness of it all.

Of course my home town was actually destroyed by a nuclear bomb in non fiction light read 1984.

 

[Zu]

Millennium Mills Silvertown has given me the HORN!

Oh now that really is the GROßMEISTER of the derelict. Have you ever been down there to have a look? It is absolutely thrilling and actually my favourite building EVER, although I’ve never dared to try and get in there. Of course they’re now ruining it by thrusting a redevelopment upon it but it’s always felt as cursed, murky and haunted as fuck, so hopefully it’ll come to nothing

 

[jyxz]

The grimness of a New Town in the 1970's (Runcorn)

 

[Kate]

Oh now that really is the GROßMEISTER of the derelict. Have you ever been down there to have a look? It is absolutely thrilling and actually my favourite building EVER, although I’ve never dared to try and get in there. Of course they’re now ruining it by thrusting a redevelopment upon it but it’s always felt as cursed, murky and haunted as fuck, so hopefully it’ll come to nothing

I have not, but I'm about to look up how long it would take to cycle all the way to Silvertown along the river

 

[AGinAg (37)]

The grimness of a New Town in the 1970's (Runcorn)

Runcorn eh?

I don't know her, but that is HORRIBLE!

 

[Kate]

Well I was, before I got distracted by the news of a disused cemetery in Barnes that I can easily walk to

 

[Lucille]

The grimness of a New Town in the 1970's (Runcorn)

Oh I LOVE that.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I see Runcorn's shopping centre was CARPETED in the 1970s!

https://images.app.goo.gl/rrKpVkPnvLXmye2y6

I bet that stayed nice!

 

[Soldi]

The grimness of a New Town in the 1970's (Runcorn)

Looks like a nice all inclusive holiday resort. Room for a week in August?

 

[Zu]

I have not, but I'm about to look up how long it would take to cycle all the way to Silvertown along the river

OMG do it!

I also love its neighbour SILO D in ways I cannot even quite describe

 

[AGinAg (37)]

The GLAMOUR!

https://images.app.goo.gl/1LnSE3hBmfbwR4be7

 

[Shirley]

I see Runcorn's shopping centre was CARPETED in the 1970s!

https://images.app.goo.gl/rrKpVkPnvLXmye2y6

I bet that stayed nice!

Darling EVERYTHING was CARPETED in the 70s. Usually with SHAG PILE

 

[jyxz]

I see Runcorn's shopping centre was CARPETED in the 1970s!

https://images.app.goo.gl/rrKpVkPnvLXmye2y6

I bet that stayed nice!

Look at the metal chandelier - I think it had something to do with the Queens jubilee.....

If you went up those stairs, there was a pub. And at Christmas that's where the Santa's Grotto also was.

 

[Kate]

I have not, but I'm about to look up how long it would take to cycle all the way to Silvertown along the river

A VERY LONG TIME

Are the Thames Clippers still running I wonder and would I get in trouble for using one and most importantly are their bars still open

 

[jyxz]

(not IN the pub)

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I note the carpet was still there in 1985!

 

[Lucille]

I once thought it’d be quite jolly to get the clipper home from Chelsea Harbour one day, only to end up on one WITHOUT A BAR. I was furious.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Oh Runcorn!

 

[jyxz]

The carpets were gone by 1989

 

[Zu]

The Runcorn WINDOWS!

 

[AGinAg (37)]

It got worse...

 

[Kate]

OMG I WANT PORTHOLES FOR WINDOWS AND I WANT THEM NOW